Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Garner's hands were stained black. He leaned forward slightly, favoring his left ear, talking fast. "Got my hands like this hulling pecans yesterday. Today I've been in the cornfield since early morning-I took the 'down row'-had to bend down, following the wagon. I wish we had time to strike a blow for Liberty, Harry...
...Texan uses a full, natural swing (it appears less than a full swing only because he brings his hands back high above his right ear) and drives an average 265 yards straight down the middle. But his magic touch lies with the irons. He regulates his swing in clocklike fashion, using the same amount of punch each time, getting different distance by lengthening or shortening his backswing. Once he knows the range, he can drop ball after ball dead on the pin. (He could equip a caddy with a baseball glove and pitch iron shots to him on the first...
...British had come to discuss certain matters with the Russians. Ear-cocking Russians might well have asked: "Shto?"-What? The answer was: Besides the inevitable military conversations, almost certainly Poland, and British-Russian relations in the Balkans and the Mediterranean...
Recently the Army Air Forces released to Bell 450 new ear plugs that reduce the racket but let the human voice through when the riveting stops. Last week the new chief of the Bell plant, Colonel Carl Cover (rhymes with Dover), found that their use at Marietta had brought about a marked reduction in nerve strain and fatigue. What noise does come through the plug sounds like the dull beating of a heavy surf...
...plug is a joint product of Harvard and the University of California. It is made of soft vinylite plastic, fits into the outer ear with flanges both inside and out, to seal off air waves and hold it in place. It has heretofore been made exclusively for Navy gunners and Army artillerymen, but may now become a major item in speeding up plane production...